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because that jacket is undoubtably the ultimate in cool... David

wav being the standard because it is a direct conversion of cdda to a computer readable file, being exactly the same quality (16bit, 44.2KHz) Files like mp3, wma or most other computer audio formats all reduce the quality and compress the file to make them smaller than a wav file (mp3 works through progressively reducing the frequencys beyond human hearing - the more compression the more is removed) apart from some of the lossless formats .shn and .flac being the two I know of (though there will probably be others) which reduce the file size and keep the quality (not sure exactly how, similar to how winzip reduces files or something I guess) for burning to cd, keep it all as wav, to keep the quality as high as possible David

Lovie, celtic; Scottish; Ending with -Ie I don't know what I was actually expecting to be honest, its a Scottish name, but I know of only a couple other Lovies around here apart from my immediate family David

£699 for the head and £299 for the cab Thats for the DR103 sitting straight onfront of you inside the door There was a head sitting on the floor a day or two before that was £699, not sure if thats the same one just with a cab or what David

I saw it when I was in last week I want it... sadly I would get murdered if I took it home I also want your bassman I don't think its illegal to sell gear with the older connectors, only to make them new (much stricter rules), which is why they have to change those for modern IEC leads on the Marshall handwired amps for example David

Nope, modified Rangemaster clone Scott, if you want, I have an EQ and a couple of Boost pedals I could let you try if you liked, not really the best boutique pedals out there, but definately servicable to give you an idea of how it would sound. Some Eq's are noisey, I know you can get mods for the Boss GE-7 to quieten it down, and the Dano mini is supposed to excellent sounding, especially for the cash As for pickups, check out Kent Armstrong, great sounds for little cash... David

To my knowledge ZVex use the 'standard' blue 3pdt like the picture you posted, thats whats in my Fuzz Factory at least... I have only ever seen the one 3pdt switch out there, used by most of the boutique guys and diy'er and so on Cornish uses different switches as he uses buffered bypass not true bypass, so only needs a small switch to trigger an electronic switch, not the 3pdt as you would need to get true bypass and an led. If you want the blue switches, check out www.monkeyfx.co.uk and www.wah-wah.co.uk for two uk sites, I have bought from both and they are both very helpful, both definately recommended David

EB volume pedals tuner out? in that case, don't bother with the tuner out, and get yourself an a/b box (can be made easily and pretty cheaply yourself if you know which end of a soldering iron to hold) the way that the EB is designed, whatever you plug into the tuner out loads down and could add noise to the main signal, an a/b box removes it completely when not in use David

For a pedal, some form of overdrive, so the Microamp, Tubescreamer or anythign else in that vein. An EQ would be more versatile as to boosting certain frequencys, but it depends on how you have your amp set - if its already starting to break up then it could be the job to push it over the edge, but an overdrive could give you more gain, it depends on how you have your amp set (using an overdrive channel on your fender?) and what sound you are after the best plan for if you have low output pickups would be new pickups, you can get higher output singlecoils or singlecoil sized humbuckers depending on ho wmuch gain and what sound you want, as always though, that would most likely be at the expense of some of the clean sound David

Well when you buy Fender branded parts for a Fender guitar, I made the huge jump of logic in assuming that said parts would fit the guitar. being made by the same company and bought as a tele wiring kit. I will give RnB a call today and see if they actually have any new control plates in stock and will check to see they actually fit David

...then to find that Fender Japan seemingly uses differently sized parts to the rest of fender, so the fender switch and cts pots I ordered are too big for the control plate on the guitar, of course, after you have removed the old electronics to make way for the new parts. Bloody fantastic So its off into town tomorrow in the hope somewhere has a tele control plate, and that it actually fits the damn guitar, and the parts I have for it. So for the moment I have a tele with no controls or electronics, I may just wire the singlecoil to the selector and use it that way if I can't get hold of the bits I need soon... Damn you fender, and damn you japan for seemingly having different sized parts from the rest of us... David

Guitar into a bass amp will have a fairly large low end and a huge clean headroom, so a pedal would be essential for dirt I remember trying an Ashdown five fifteen (65watt 1x15 bass combo) against my JCM2000 DSL401 (40 watt 1x12 guitar amp) and the Marshall came out on top for the sound I was after. Against a little 10 watt tranny amp the bass amp was awesome though David

I was quite pleased when I got one of those, telling me I had to login for some reason or another The only problem being me not owning a paypal account in the first place... David

One thing I did wander when the smoking ban kicks in... What will bars smell like? At the moment you go into a bar and it uniformly smells of smoke, and thats that, but if smoking is banned, the cloud of stale smoke will eventually lift away and leave us with what? the smell of spilt drinks and sweaty people? Excellent. David

I remember I once found a magazine called Brave Words and Bloody Knuckles which was most cool for the rather heavey varietys of music (The one I found had Anthrax and Nevermore in it, and more stuff like that) but I never managed to find it again here I occasionally buy Q, which varies between Radiohead/Pixiesesc more popular styles of 'alternative' music, and some more trendy stuff, which is ok if you need something to read but I wouldn't buy it often Really there are no good magazines that give you a decent selection of 'alternative' music - by that I mean pretty much anything from Radiohead to Metallica, I guess such a broad area would leave most people only reading a couple of articles out of the whole thing and ignoring the rest, apart from the few awkward sods who like a bit of everything The only magazine I buy regularly is a guitar one (Guitar Buyer) David

Probably just as you said, the wood inside the hole has stripped a bit so it dosen't grip enough the easy fix, jam in a matchstick, then screw in the screw again. the matchstick will take up some of the extra space and give the screw something to grip against. Repeat it with a few matchsticks and it should hold nicely. If you want you could add in a few drops of wood glue or the like to make it that bit more solid. The 'proper' way of doing it would be to drill out the hole bigger, plug it properly with a dowell then redril, but I prefer my method David

Sold then (You can take that as I will take the PS02 off your hands) David

the ps02, does it have the power supply? David

Art versus Engineering? that kinda sums up some of it to me - making it up as you go along in your own style as you see fit, versus using building blocks to piece together something, perfectly organised, but dosen't always click as something from the heart can. David